They could only watch helplessly as Lin Chuan took Son Gohan away.
And Bulma, of course.
Not a single person said a word to stop them.
Only after the three of them had disappeared from sight did everyone manage to come back to their senses.
Still, no one spoke.
It was Kami Piccolo who finally stepped forward, using his own perspective to spur on the warriors he had gathered.
"Do you understand the difference in strength now?! The Saiyan invaders arriving on Earth a year from now may well be as powerful as Lin Chuan was just now."
"Although Lin Chuan said earlier that he didn't consider those two Saiyans a threat, we still don't know what the actual situation will be."
"One year! We have only one year! I don't want to put all our hopes in Goku, nor do I want to entrust Earth's future to that Saiyan, Lin Chuan!"
"So you need to prepare yourselves! Get ready for the most brutal Devil Training!"
Kami Piccolo's earnest words carried a heavy sense of oppression.
There was no doubt that he had asked Son Gohan to stay behind and sent Lin Chuan and Bulma to find the Dragon Balls and make a wish first so he could use Lin Chuan's strength to impress the promising warriors he had gathered.
As long as it inspired them and gave them a clear goal for the future, they would inevitably grow stronger!
They all understood what Kami Piccolo meant. One after another, they nodded and shared their thoughts.
In short, they asked Kami Piccolo to train them as hard as he could.
In the Original Work, they had indeed relied on Kami Piccolo to improve their strength.
In the blink of an eye,
night fell.
West City, the largest and most prosperous city on Earth.
With Son Gohan in tow, Lin Chuan accepted Bulma's invitation and took the large transport jet she had left on Kame House back to her home.
You might wonder: couldn't the jet be put back into a Capsule?
The reason was simple: the jet was towing Lin Chuan's spaceship, so it couldn't be put into a Capsule. They could only fly it back to West City.
That was what they had done before, which was why it had ended up at Kame House.
Afterward, Lin Chuan had decided the jet was too slow, so he had simply picked Bulma up and gone looking for the Dragon Balls.
Now that the important matters were taken care of and he had achieved his basic goals, there was no need to hurry.
Instead, he needed time to think through and carefully plan his next steps.
First, how should he train? And how should he change the events of the future?
Second, how should he guide Son Gohan? No matter what, he had to at least make a show of taking action.
They arrived at Bulma's home.
The Capsule Corp private estate.
There was only one word to describe it at first glance: huge!
So huge it was beyond imagination.
Lin Chuan wasn't some country bumpkin who had never seen the world. As a Transmigrator, what kind of luxury mansions and estates hadn't he seen?
Even if nothing else, he had seen countless photos and videos online in his previous life.
Yet he couldn't help being shocked.
Bulma's family estate backed onto the West City Plains, so its sheer size was impossible to calculate precisely.
At the very least, it covered several square kilometers.
Put simply, the front yard, the backyard, and the garden alone—the ordinary living areas—covered tens of thousands of square meters.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg. The enormous ecological park could support dinosaurs and other large creatures!
The vast warehouse complex was as big as a port.
There were also dozens of buildings in different shapes, not to mention the research areas...
Anyone would have found it hard to believe.
As expected of Earth's number-one Capsule Corp!
Even at this point, when Bulma had only just begun managing the family business, it was already an organization to be reckoned with.
In another place, this private estate could have passed for a decent-sized town.
The jet touched down.
Bulma jumped straight out, and Lin Chuan and Son Gohan followed.
Before Lin Chuan could say anything, he heard Son Gohan exclaim in amazement, "This is Aunt Bulma's home? It's really huge!"
Son Gohan looked around like a curious little kid.
Everything he saw turned his small worldview upside down.
Until now, he had lived in the remote mountains of Mount Paozu.
Although he had learned a lot about the outside world from books, he had never left home or visited a modern city.
To him, it was like he had arrived in a whole new world.
"Kid Gohan, what you're seeing now is only a small part of my home. After dinner, I'll give you a proper tour."
"Come to think of it, your father entrusted you to Lin Chuan. Lin Chuan will be staying at my place for a while, so you'll be living here for some time too."
As she spoke, Bulma used a remote to lower the spaceship from the jet.
Son Gohan gave a quiet "Mm" and said nothing more, simply staring wide-eyed at everything.
At Bulma's command, the spaceship quickly touched down. Several robots came over to help.
The sight even surprised Lin Chuan.
After all, this scene had never appeared in the Original Work.
Although Bulma's family had intelligent robots in the Original Work, there had only been a few of them.
Bulma was quite pleased to see how astonished Lin Chuan and Son Gohan looked.
The corners of her lips lifted slightly as she handed the remote to a robot to continue operating.
"The robots can take care of things here for now. It's already past six, so let's go have dinner first."
"When I got back, I had the household robots start preparing."
Wanting to impress Lin Chuan, Bulma drove him and Son Gohan in a sightseeing cart toward the huge round house in the distance, introducing the estate as they went.
She explained how the different areas were laid out and what each type of building was for.
Ten minutes later, they arrived at the estate's main house.
It was the huge round house that had appeared countless times in the Original Work.
To Lin Chuan, this iconic building was the only part that felt familiar.
He had always assumed that no matter how big Bulma's home was, it would just have a few large gardens.
He hadn't realized it was this enormous.
Once inside the main house, Lin Chuan met Bulma's parents, Dr. Brief and his wife.
The two were utterly surprised by Lin Chuan and Son Gohan's identities.
For one thing, this was the third man Bulma had brought home.
For another, even Goku, who was younger than Bulma, already had a child. How could they not be shocked?
Then they looked at their own daughter. She was a woman, and if she waited any longer, she'd become an old maid.
Of course, Bulma paid no attention to her parents' hints.
She had always done things her own way in the Original Work.
She would rather die than settle.
Her parents knew what kind of person their daughter was.
So, when trying to get through to her proved useless, Dr. Brief and his wife turned their attention to Lin Chuan instead.
Bulma's mother, especially, made a tentative effort to get close to him, leaving Lin Chuan a little flattered.
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